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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
So my dad found my Polly pockets the other day.
Yeah, I know.
It's a big find.
He sent me a picture.
I've got all the classics.
The pink heart, the big pink star, the pastel green one.
I even have one shaped like a koala.
I am 35 years old, and I'm pumped to play with these, but also, okay, realistically, what am I supposed to do with them after?
Give them back to my parents, display them.
I mean, I don't want to get rid of them.
They're precious.
But my parents are in possession of a lot more of my precious, semi precious, and not at all precious childhood stuff, and I think they might be ready to offload some of it.
The time comes for many of us, often at our parents insistence, when we are faced with our childhood belongings.
Preschool artwork, report cards, those shin guards you wore to play soccer in high school.
You can definitely throw those out.
By the way, for NPR producer Kyle Mackey, that time came this past fall.
She's 33.
She just bought her first house, and her mom was like, hey, why don't you take your crap with you?